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1947 - Color, USA Industrial History: Power Behind The Nation Pt. 1 of 2

Reel Number: 221186-02

Color: Colour

Sound: SD

Year / Date: 1947

Country: USA

Location: California,Hollywood

TC Begins: 21:06:34

TC Ends: 21:15:57

Duration: 00:09:23

1947 - Color, USA Industrial History Pt. 1 of 2 Capitol, early shots of settlers arriving on sailing ship; leaving ship. Frontier men; Betsy Ross & women sewing flag; covered wagons crossing prairie w/ sunset behind. 21:07:27 Falling tree, moving logs w/ oxen, constructing log cabins; camping, clearing. Stagecoach shots and covered wagons over prairies & grasslands. Railroad construction & trains passing on prairie. Industry. 21:08:31 Men leaving steelmill. NYC and Los Angeles street shots. Ranching shots. Fishermen, tobacco growers, laborers, family at dinner table. Kids picking potatoes. Exercising. Men working at various industries. Dinner table. farm workers. Exercising. 21:09:20 Glass blowing & forming. 21:09:34 Montage of industry, agriculture, motors, smokestacks & steam. Turbines; Smoke and furnaces. 21:10:09 Assembly lines. Manufacturing pipes. Harbor shot of tugs, loading trucks, auto assembly lines. Combines on train cars. Steel off rollers. Docks. 21:10:56 Textile mills, waterfalls & train past. Coal miners coming out of mine, long coal train, machine inside coal mine tunnel and man operating coal cutter. Man placing charge and dynamiting underground. Various products off assembly line. Steel mill, coal fired. Pouring steel. Chimneys. 21:12:31 Open pit mine; granite quarry; oil field. Dumping coal car. More shots of guarry, blasting in open pit mine and shoveling with giant shovel. aluminum smelter, pouring steel & drawing. Spinning wires into large cables. 21:13:52 Man scaling large tree & topping, swinging back and forth. Cutting redwoods with axes & falling it. Multiple shots. Redwood mill, pine mill & sawing timbers into planks. Home building; pulpwood stacked. Moving rolls of paper & newspaper printing with colored ink. Men reading magazines, engineers in technical center of radio studio. 02:16:42 Movie studio exterior; western set; interior w/ large crane & set. Interior of movie theater. Outside on western set. Propaganda; Myths; Capitalism; Technicolor Montage; History; 40s Americana; Industrial America; economics; Industry;

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